Author: [View Book]. Lehnert, Rudolf.  Landrock, Ernst
Title: In The LAND Of The PHARAOS. 24 Artistic Pictures of Upper Egypt
Description: Cairo: Lehnert & Landrock, (n. d.). Ca mid-1920s (?). Marbled yellow stiff-stock paper covers covers, lettering stamped in gold, light red cord tie. Brown marbled paper eps. No text pages. Each plate has name of studio ("Editors: Lehnert & Landrock Cairo") printed in the plate. 24 captioned b/w images, sepia photographs in heliogravure, ~ 6" x 8-3/8". Faux plate impression for each. Landscape format: 9-3/8" x 12". Extremity wear to covers, with old tape reinforcement to spine above/below cord tie. Age-toning to paper. Withal, a VG copy. Images include: Luxor Temple seen from the Nile -- Luxor-Temple: the Colonnade -- Luxor-Temple: the Forecourt and Statue of Ramses II -- Luxor-Temple: Statue of Rameses II -- Karnak: Ptolomey Gateway and the Temple of Khonsu -- Karnak: Memorials of Thotmes III -- Karnak: Avenue of Sphinxes -- Karnak: The Temple of Rameses III -- Thebes: the Ramesseum -- Thebes: Medinet Habu -- the Temple of Rameses III -- Thebes: Der-El-Bahari, Temple of Queen Hatshepsut -- Thebes: Tut Ankh Amen's Tomb in the Valley of the Kings -- Thebes: Colossi of Memnon -- Denderah: The Great Vestibule of the Temple of Hathor -- Denderah: Ptolomey Offering to Isis and Horus -- Abydos: The Temple of Sethos I -- Abydos: Sethos Offering to the Sacred Boats -- Edfou: the Temple of Horus -- Edfou: Pillar-Vestibule of the Temple of Horus -- Kom-Ombo: the Temple of Ombos -- Kom-Ombo: the Temple of Ombos Seen from the Nile -- Assuan Seen from Elephantine Island -- Assuan: the Bath of Cleopatra and the Island of Elephantine -- Assuan: Philae Before the Inundation. Rather uncommon early 20th C. work on Egypt, we see no others in the trade, and OCLC only recording a dozen copies in institutions around the world.

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